2023 Life Logs, Day 170: Nightmares Can Be a Good Thing
Date: Monday, June 19, 2023
Weather: Cloudy Until Late Date: High 68, Low 54 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
In the middle of last night, I woke up from nightmares about moving. How was I going to drive the U-Haul truck and pick up the men I was going to hire to help with the move all at the same time? How were two men, not experienced movers, just guys that need work, plus Heather, Sam, Jonah, Ollie, and I really going to move everything in this cottage in one afternoon? Jonah’s overnight birthday party doesn’t end until 11 am on Saturday, so before that, it would just be me and these two guys that I don’t know doing what I tell them to do. Heather and I talked last night and convinced ourselves that we could do this on this coming Saturday. But my worrisome nightmares defied that. When I got up this morning. I Googled “moving companies in Falmouth MA.” I looked at the whole list and called the one closest to here. A man answered the phone and asked when I wanted to move. I said sometime between now and July 1. He said the only date in that time period that he had available was this coming Saturday. Bingo! I told the guy my sad story and he said he would come over and assess the job. When he arrived, we went through everything to be moved. He explained to me that I live in a small house, but I have a lot of stuff, especially the 45 boxes of books. He estimated that it would take 6 hours to move everything, but the cost for that was more than I can afford to pay. He went through things I can do between now and Saturday to cut the time and costs, and he said that if my daughter and grandsons could help on the receiving end by carrying the boxes, we might be able to do it in a shorter period of time for a price that was acceptable to me. So, the U-Haul self-moving contract has been cancelled and Rich Moving and Storage will do the job. Hopefully I can sleep tonight.
Shadow and I had to be out of the house by noon today for a showing. I took Shadow to Heather and Jed’s to spend the afternoon in the red room and I headed across the bridge to Marion to pick up the Goldstones, minus Sam, who was working today. The Goldstones headed to Quissett late morning for a renaming ceremony for Eider, now officially Ardenna, and then sailing/motoring her to her summer mooring in Wings Cove in Marion on the other side of Buzzards Bay. I drove over early in case there was a back up of traffic at the bridge and their sail took longer than they expected. But I found a lovely spot on a point near Wings Cove so I could watch for Ardenna’s arrival.
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We didn’t get back to Quissett Harbor until almost 5 pm, but I really did have a lovely, much needed, afternoon by the water. We all reconvened back at Heather and Jed’s were I picked up Shadow and watched as Ollie demonstrated his climbing abilities on the newly installed obstacle course in the front yard.
Then I said my farewells as the Goldstones were headed to Albany, New York tonight. They are spending the rest of this week on a mini family vacation that includes a day at Niagara Falls and will return on Friday in time for Jonah’s birthday party on Friday night. Then on Saturday Jed leaves for Denmark and the BIG MOVE will happen here.
